SOMERSET — Somerset jumped on top in a hurry. Somerset rallied to tie it in the seventh inning. Somerset did everything but win the game.

First-place Easton showed some grit, too, tying the game with four runs in the sixth inning and then scoring single runs in the seventh and eighth to beat last-place Somerset, 7-6, in American Legion District 9 baseball on Monday night at the South Complex.

Easton is 5-1, Somerset 0-4.

For the first time in four games this season, Somerset Post 228 coach Bill Courville was not down after the final out, which in this case came in the eighth inning, after Somerset had a runner at third with nobody out and left the bases loaded.

“They showed me some energy and enthusiasm tonight,” Courville said. “The first three games they showed me nothing. The first three games they went through the motions.”

Tyler Nadeau led the Somerset eighth with a double to deep left, and he took third base on a wild pitch. After Tom Santos walked, Sean Botelho’s fly ball to shallow right was snared by the second baseman on an exceptional play. Drew Rapoza followed with a fielder’s choice grounder, with Nadeau thrown out at home. After Cotey Monte walked, Chris Padula was retired on a fly ball to right.

Nadeau finished with three hits while Monte (two singles, one walk) reached base three times.

Somerset scored three first-inning runs on singles by Monte, Padula, and Nick Carreira, a passed ball and a Jon Elderkin two-run single.

Monte singled-in a run in the second inning and a Nadeau RBI single in the third inning made it 5-1.

Post 7 of Easton tied with four in the sixth and went up 6-5 in the top of the seventh.

In the bottom of the seventh, with a runner at first base and two outs, Zach Reid nailed a double to right-center and the tying run scored when Easton botched the relay.

Carreira, Somerset’s starting pitcher, worked the first seven innings, striking out six. Monte pitched the eighth.

Somerset had three runners picked off. “None of them were stealing,” Courville said.

Fall River 2, Acushnet 1: Fall River Post 464 edged Acushnet, 2-1, in American Legion baseball action. FR pitcher Brendan Teixeira pitched the entire game, with 12 strikeouts, three hits and five walks. In his last two games, Teixeira has struck out 27 batters in 13 innings.

Norton 7, Westport 6: At Norton, Ian Chaney was 3-for-4 and Chad Willard launched an RBI triple for Westport (2-4) which had led 4-0.